I have written some exporters to observe things on GitHub. This is how and why. We will talk about 2 things: other projects’ releases; my projects’ releases; So let’s get started! Other Projects’ Releases On my work and personal projects I use a lot of...
Several years ago, I began exploring Linux’s Netlink inter-process communication interface. Netlink is used for retrieving information from the Linux kernel, and in order to cross the kernel boundary, information is typically packed into Netlink attributes.
One of the most popular websites at NASA is the Astronomy Picture of the Day.
As many of us know, Go version 1.11 introduced Go Modules, a brand new dependency management system. A Little Bit About Modules Before 1.11, our dependencies were a collection of Go packages with a single version number attached to all of them.
In the previous post I showed how to keep all the scripts used in the CI in one repository. Let’s see what more advanced scripts you could put in there. This time I’d like to show how to add automatic versioning to your pipeline. You will also see how to push commits...
Gpython is a Python 3.4 interpreter written in Go. This is the story of how it came to be, how it works and where it is going.
I have many different interests, including baking, open-source software, and more recently, systems monitoring and learning Go. As a way for me to expand my practical knowledge on each item, I devised a fun little project that leverages sensors, Raspberry Pis, and Prometheus to i...
Thanks to Andreas Auernhammer, author of the golang.org/x/crypto/argon2 package, for checking over this post before publication. If you're planning to store user passwords it's good practice (essential really) to hash them using a computationally expensive key-derivation functi...
TL;DR In this article I’ll share my experience building an interactive 3D WebGL-based application for peer-to-peer messaging protocol simulation without writing any single line in JS.
This article is about an experiment at Africa’s Talking on using Slack to manage our deployment process. Like many companies, we use Kubernetes to manage our deployments, and Slack for internal communications.